Music
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Literature Literally Rocks
Autumn is well and truly here and I’m in a reflective mood. The summer has been a remarkably busy one with the festival season, in particular, dominating my time. In my role as a music journalist I’ve been fortunate enough to cover quite a few events but one of the more unusual of these was one I worked…
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Stars In Their Eyes
I saw a post on Facebook recently by a friend who had met the motorcycle champion-come-rock star, James Toseland, one of the celebrities I’d had the pleasure of working with last year. She was over the moon at meeting him at one of his gigs and having the opportunity to post a picture of her…
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Star CAT’s Encore
Avid followers of my blog may recall that, in March, I was invited onto Star Radio 107fm to divulge my thoughts on PR in the music and entertainment industry as part of the Cambridge Marketing Colleges Marketing Review show.
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It’s Time
They say that a day is a long time in politics. In the music industry, a decade seems like a lifetime. In a short space of only a few years, the way we consume music has changed unrecognisably, metamorphosing from the fantastic plastic through to pint-sized compact discs and settling on the current darling of…
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Music PR Is The Star
Last month, I was invited to divulge my thoughts on PR in the music and entertainment industry as part of the Cambridge Marketing Colleges Marketing Review feature on Star Radio 107fm. I don’t often swap my usual position with the microphone to become the subject of an interview but it was great to give people an insight into…
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Let’s Talk About Music
I was faced with a bit of an uncomfortable situation for me last month – I swapped my usual position with the microphone to become the subject of an interview on Star Radio 107fm. As a fellow of the Cambridge Marketing College, I was invited to divulge my thoughts on PR in the music and…
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Almost Final Vinyl
Since the rise in popularity of digital recordings, vinyl has been considered by many to be just a quaint relic from the past, a remnant of a by-gone era when the music industry was vibrant and record sales were in their millions. Yes, there may have been some who clutched their PVC memories to their…
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Tuning in to WII.FM
I don’t think I’m the only PR professional who is more than a little uncomfortable with promoting themselves….we’re a bit like the construction industry worker who fails to find time to fix up their own house. But just recently I’ve been re-evaluating the balance of my public ‘shouting’ about my clients success compared with promoting…
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Angels with dirty faces
Recently, a television documentary was aired in which Pamela Stevenson interviewed celebrities about the negative effects of fame and how it influenced the way they treated others. It made me think. As readers of my previous blogs may be aware, I’ve been around the world of celebrity for many years in my role as a music PR and journalist and,…
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The Shoe Fits
My post Walking A Mile In Another’s Shoes, explained how I was interviewed recently by King’s Lynn Online. Here’s how it went… We ask a local personality a set of probing questions … Local PR Consultant Allison Thomas is another ‘woman of many hats’ – As well as her consultancy work she also teaches, and…
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